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In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison. — Henry David Thoreau

We're not crazy. We're just not in the dark anymore. And my goodness, we can see you so clearly now. — Saeed Jones

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders. — Lawrence Lessig

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. — Judi Dench

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away. — Peter Jackson

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. — Peter Medawar

Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die. — Rebecca McNutt

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics. — Henry Paulson

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society. — Yuri Kochiyama

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. — Friedrich Schiller

In society just as in the soul,
when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

You're a hero until you take off your uniform. After that, you're just damaged goods to society. — Brittainy C. Cherry

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. — Susan Sontag

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other. — Stephen King

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society. — Erin Willett

It is so hard to stay afloat in a world
that just wants to drown you. — Schuyler Peck

I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going to be a problem. — Kevin Wilson

Let's just say that society tells you to be whoever you want to be, but they don't accept you. — Ronald Gan

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one. — George Packer

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. — Jerry Falwell

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society. — Luke Ford

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy. — Anita Sarkeesian

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it. — Jane Austen

Creative monopolies aren't just good for the rest of society; they're powerful engines for making it better. — Peter Thiel

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. — Oscar Wilde

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction. — Stevie Wonder

Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley. — Ally Carter

Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma — Trenton Lee Stewart

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. — John Lydon

There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation. — James Florio

Most of us try to just live with what society tells us is important — Sunday Adelaja

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. — Tupac Shakur

Proper learning isn't just useful in society, Beryl. It can be wonderfully yours, a thing to have and keep just for you. — Paula McLain

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth. — Julian Assange

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. — Penn Jillette

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. — Edward Bond

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think — Tom Schulman

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers
just for society to keep track of who was who. — Keith Ablow

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity. — Maajid Nawaz

Society ends up with the adults it deserves. It's just a little more obvious nowadays. — Ake Edwardson

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet. — Charlie Jane Anders

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. — Tony Benn

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. — Raymond Chandler

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal. — Rob James-Collier

And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society. — Betty Williams

Everyone in this world is nuts, the difference is some of them just really good at disguising it. — Rea Lidde

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society. — Lea DeLaria

In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life. — Norris Henderson

We're a society of busy people - and there's a multitude of fast food, drive-thru options just for our convenience. — Jarrid Wilson

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness. — Christina Hoff Sommers

It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. — Tom Stoppard

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated. — Peter Sis

The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything - except the truth. — Rick Riordan

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. — Michel Foucault

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad. — Barbara Park

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home. — K. Hari Kumar

Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can't do that. — Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

Trust cannot, in the real world, be just a matter of personal choice. — David Amerland

Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future. — Erin Gruwell

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior. — Jerry Springer

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. — John W. Gardner

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that ... but I know that's just American society. — Dean Smith

We all have a responsibility to create a just society — Bryan Stevenson

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society. — Justin Trudeau

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists. — Margaret Mead

A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners. — Olaf Stapledon

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world. — Pierre Trudeau

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed. — Judith Martin

She is a good person and she's just different among others. But being different doesn't mean you are bad or doesn't belong to the society. — Cherry Seniel

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear. — Kate Winslet

Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything. — Stephen Richards

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre. — Marina Abramovic

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. — Christopher Hayes

The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago. — Pierre Trudeau

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, Maria said finally. — Lois Lowry

Most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. — Idries Shah

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. — P. J. O'Rourke

I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight. — Michelle Rodriguez

To hate someone just because he doesn't presume like you is big blunder. — M.H. Rakib

We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society. — Jon Ronson

Society says "Don't talk about sex, just do it — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive. — Osamu Dazai

Eating is not a crime. It's not a moral issue. It's normal. It's enjoyable. It just is. — Carrie Arnold

We overlook just how large a role we all play
and by 'we' I mean society
in determining who makes it and who doesn't. — Malcolm Gladwell

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. — Shirley Chisholm

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes. — Al Roker

we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With — Oscar Wilde

Society needs to evolve just as our DNA does. — Kat Lahr

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals. — B.W. Powe

If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now. — Natalie De Clare

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. — Naguib Mahfouz

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top. — Rupert Murdoch

The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens. — Michael Dirda

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere. — M.I.A.

There's something to be said for learning a race by close study of its outcasts. Who doesn't fit into a society can be just as telling as who does. — Melisa Michaels

Don't hide what you have just because people tell you it's not normal. I have known normal people ... and guess what? They are as boring as hell ... — Sidney Knight

If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow. — Veronica Roth

It's ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don't judge. They just default to what everyone else thinks. — Siobhan Vivian

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society. — Barbra Streisand